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- 48 minutes 34 secondsBeastie Boys: How They Inspired A Crime Wave, Caused New Laws To Be Written, and Influenced Culture
The news called the London crime wave an “epidemic”. The Beastie Boys inspired it. Liverpool wanted to kill the group. Ad Rock was in jail. Numerous other musicians were arrested, in part, because of the Beasties. These stories plus the band’s hardcore roots, their hip hop success, how they created a Gen X Sgt. Peppers, and a legacy that will be hard to top for future artists. Buckle up for a crime and grime Beastie Boys story.
This episode was originally released on January 21, 2025.
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19 April 2026, 7:00 am - 39 minutes 48 secondsBonus Episode: We Are Starting Our Own Rock ‘n’’ Roll Hall of Fame
The Rock and Roll Hall Of Fame 2026 inductees were announced, and guess what? You’re pissed! So we are starting our own Hall of Fame. Plus, we are hearing from you through your voicemails, texts, and emails about Tom Waits, Patti Smith, and, of course, this week’s subject, Grace Jones. Welcome to the After Party, Disgos!
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16 April 2026, 7:00 am - 38 minutes 44 secondsGrace Jones: True Crime Magnet. Eighties Icon.
Grace Jones was one of the era-defining multihyphenates of the 1980s, an icon of the music, fashion, and movie worlds. From Jamaica to Studio 54, she broke down barriers and smashed glass ceilings at every turn – but she was also a magnet for true crime in the process. She was arrested numerous times. She was set up, the victim of a home invasion, and she wielded a loaded gun in order to get her way. At the height of her fame, she found herself fighting to defend her honor and her truth in the face of serious jail time.
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14 April 2026, 7:00 am - 41 minutes 11 secondsTaylor Swift: Interstate Stalking, Vanishing Masters, and Love Letters Gone Wrong
Taylor Swift has a list of stalkers longer than her stadium tour setlists. One drove over 900 miles to hand-deliver his “love” letters to her then-record-label, Big Machine Records. Others have showed up to her homes bearing rope, lock picks, and tools to break her windows. The threats on her life have become so persistent that her security team once installed facial recognition software at the venues she performed in, specifically to distinguish her stalkers from her fans. While making some of the most recognizable pop songs in music history, Taylor Swift also became one of the most recognizable women in the celebrity sphere – a title that on many occasions has nearly cost her life.
This episode contains themes that may be disturbing to some listeners, including descriptions of stalking and sexual assault.
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This episode was originally published on January 11, 2022.
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12 April 2026, 7:00 am - 38 minutes 13 secondsBonus Episode: A Big Announcement, The True Crime and Grime of the Chelsea Hotel, and More
Disgos, we’ve got some big news—and you’re hearing it first. Also, Patti Smith has us asking (and answering), which movies about the Chelsea Hotel are worth watching, plus your voicemails, texts, DMs and more on the greatest music memoirs.
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9 April 2026, 7:00 am - 57 minutes 3 secondsPatti Smith: How True Crime Helped The “Godmother of Punk” Survive
The Lindbergh Baby Kidnapping, Helter Skelter, the .44 Caliber Killers, the crime and grime of 70s New York; Central Park, the Chelsea Hotel, 42nd St., rape, murder, and the influence of junkie poets, and thieving novelists, all of it compelled Patti Smith to create music “for the criminals”, and perhaps to also survive, when so many other artists did not.
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7 April 2026, 7:00 am - 33 minutes 6 secondsFleetwood Mac Pt. 1: Guns, God, Cocaine and Rumours
Few bands can boast a rock ’n’ roll lore at the level of Fleetwood Mac. The band lost not one but two guitarists to cult-like religious freaks. Two band members were arrested on gun charges. They encountered doom brought on by drugs, money, and Jesus Christ. Most famously, the band involved themselves with each other romantically in ways that brought on jealousy, distrust, anger, divorce and resulted in one of the most successful albums of all time. From their earliest days as an English blues band to the pop superstars they would become in the mid to late ’70s, one thing about Fleetwood Mac never faltered: They always had talent — and drama — to spare.
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This episode was originally published on September 14, 2021.
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6 April 2026, 12:18 pm - 31 minutes 40 secondsFleetwood Mac Pt. 2: Going to #1, and Going Your Own Way
Fleetwood Mac’s mid-’70s merger with the musical duo of Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks changed the course of the band forever, propelling them to Top 40 mega-fame and cocaine-fueled excess. At the core of it all were rampant Rumours — both the album and the literal gossip. Breakups, divorce, drama: the same intra-band personal dynamics that stressed the group simultaneously led to the creation of one of the top-selling albums of all time. For Fleetwood Mac, Rumours was how the truth came out. And over 40 years later, there’s still a lot that needs clearing up.
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This episode was originally published on September 21, 2021.
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5 April 2026, 7:01 am - 53 minutes 30 secondsBonus Episode: A Music History Memoir and Rock ‘N’ Roll Autobiography Reading List
Fresh off of reading Patti Smith’s excellent memoir Just Kids in preparation of our upcoming Patti episode, we are discussing our favorite music history memoirs and autobiographies, everything from Henry Rollins to Carrie Brownstein back to Henry Rollins via David Lee Roth and more plus, as always, your voicemails, texts, dms, emails and a new segment we’re calling “New Song Old Song”.
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2 April 2026, 7:00 am - 28 minutes 49 secondsSpecial Episode: New Artists/New Crimes Revealed
A special look at the new artists we’re covering in 2026, along with a peek back at how we got started, where we’re going, and some listener favorites through the years.
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31 March 2026, 7:00 am - 34 minutes 1 secondBobby Brown: Cocaine Chicken, Horny Ghosts, and His Prerogative
Bobby Brown thrusted and gyrated his way to the top of the charts with Don’t Be Cruel, one of the biggest records of the late 1980s and an album that brought hip-hop’s hard-knock sensibilities to R&B. But fame did not change the Boston bad boy. At the height of his superstardom, Bobby Brown was arrested onstage for violating a lewd act law. He claimed to have a sexual encounter with a ghost at his lavish Atlanta mansion. And his party-hard ways may have been the reason why Mike Tyson shockingly lost a fight and thus lost his undefeated heavyweight title.
This episode contains themes that may be disturbing to some listeners, including domestic violence and police brutality.
This episode was originally published on June 25, 2024.
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